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The dogs were acting funny when I got back from my walk. It was hot and I left them outside for about an hour, and they swarmed me when I got back, both of them trying to tell me something.
Morgan finally got my attention my pointing at it and barking....

She had crawled right up on the back porch. I didn't notice her and just walked by her at first. When I returned she got aggressive. I'd never been around a snapping turtle before, and I was astounded how fast she was! Like a snake!

So I got a garden tool and put her in a 5 gallon bucket. Took her across the fence and into the woods about 200 feet away.
Two hours later she was back. Same spot. Still pissed. Snapped. Hissed.

5 gallon bucket again. Garden tool.............but this time she rode in the back of the pickup to a lake about 3 miles away.

She was still pissed the last time I saw her.........I think she is looking for a spot to lay eggs.

Should have kept her. Put up a few Beware of Turtle signs. Put her in your safe with your valuables.

"In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."
—Thomas Paine, Common Sense

They are very expensive meat but their numbers are dwindling so I leave them alone.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB